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LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.

We are looking for an Account Director Associate to join our team as a trusted adviser with a relentless focus on bringing value to our staffing customers within Mid-Market sector. You will be responsible for helping our customers effectively engage with our Talent solutions. You will be dedicated to making our customers stronger and seeking out opportunities for growth. Although you possess a strategic approach to selling and strive to meet/exceed revenue goals, you will always have your clients’ best interest in mind and act as their internal advocate to ensure they are set up for success.  

Responsibilities: 

• Researches Customer’s business and prepares thoughtful questions and insights in advance of customer meetings  

• Asks layered, open-ended questions to understand and clarify Customer’s objectives and challenges beyond surface-level detail  

• Builds relationships with multiple stakeholders (vertically and horizontally) across the Customer’s organization  

• Shifts communication style and content to fit the needs of different stakeholders  

• Leads with Solutions, not products, when making recommendations aligned to Customer objectives  

• Drives customer decision making by achieving shared vision and proactively considering the value props that tie all stakeholders together  

• Thinks commercially and applies business acumen when crafting & negotiating commercial agreements   

• Uses data and insights to support investment recommendations or overcome customer objections   

• Proactively mitigates churn risk by adopting a smart, customer-centric approach.  

• Engages customers throughout to confirm and clarify value and adapts a strategy when needed to optimize ROI  

• Drives customer growth by proactively identifying opportunities to deliver greater customer value  

• Applies business acumen in Account Planning by considering economic, industry, and company factors with a Customer-centric lens   

• Maps all key stakeholders in an account to assess the strength of the account relationship and create account outreach strategy  

• Is disciplined in Territory and Account Planning, Forecasting, and Quota Attainment 

Basic Qualifications:

• 1+ years of applicable sales experience

• Fluency in French and in English.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with recruiting, recruitment media and HR software

• Experience with SaaS opportunities and Salesforce.com platform

• Experience selling IT or recruiting solutions

• Knowledge of software contract terms and conditions with the ability to create fair transactions

• Strong negotiation and accurate forecasting skills

• Demonstrated ability to find, manage and close high-level business in an evangelist sales environment

• Ability to assess business opportunities and use data to inform decision making and persuade others

• Ability to manage a large number of prospect situations simultaneously while positioning company products against direct and indirect competitors

Suggested Skills :

• Negotiation

• Forecasting

• Clients Management

• Closing

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